On May 28, 2007 in Hamilton (Bermuda) the 15-th Egmont Plenary session was opened, with the Russian delegation from the Federal Financial Monitoring Service led by Mr. Zubkov among the participants.
During the Plenary session of the Egmont Group, consisted of FIUs of 101 jurisdictions, the Egmont Committee annual report is to be heard, as well as reports on the work of regional groups. Furthermore, issues to be discussed will include: joint actions aimed at combating money laundering and financing of terrorism in the offshore zone, peculiarities of functioning of the alternative money transfer systems, typologies and information security and admission of the new Egmont members.
The Russian delegation will participate in the Plenary session activities and working group meetings, will carry on bilateral negotiations with the international colleagues and sign cooperation agreements with a number of FIUs.
The Plenary session will last till June 1.
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